Cologne Archive collapses

Apparently, the archives held an unbroken set of minutes of all Cologne town council meetings since 1376. Unfortunately, most of the material in the archive – as in most archives, I suspect – hadn’t been copied. For the city of Cologne, this may be a disaster like the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin in 1922. That was during the Irish Civil War, whereas the archive in Cologne simply collapsed.